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- Comment on If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody? 5 months ago:
Can’t hide my gamer history 😅
- Comment on If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody? 5 months ago:
Afaik it’s pretty common to call twinks “halfs”, conjoined or not. I’m a twin, and I’ve been asked about “the other half” my whole life. Same thing with couples, or any two people who are perceived as belonging together for some reason.
- Comment on If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody? 5 months ago:
I’d say nobody. Not putting innocent people in jail is more important than punishing criminals imo. But idk what to do with the guilty half instead.
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- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
No, it really doesn’t. That’s like creating a bot that buys and sells company shares automatically, and saying the stock exchange has a vulnerability because your bot makes bad decisions.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
What’s absurd is this crypto maximalist take.
You can’t just make up your own permission and punishment system, and then expect the legal system to just step aside and let it handle all disputes, especially when it comes to fraud. That’s like founding your own city in an existing country, and declaring all existing law obsolete. I know some people think this is a real possibility, but the real world doesn’t work like that.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 6 months ago:
Bad/Unfavorable contracts and literal deception/fraud are two different things, at least in the legal system. Not everything that’s technically possible is also allowed, obviously.
Compare it to using a security flaw to hack into a system. Technically you’re only using the official API, maybe in unusual ways but still. But you’re doing it in bad faith and causing harm, and that can make a difference.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 6 months ago:
It’s not. They tricked some MEV-Boost bots into doing bad trades.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 6 months ago:
Here is a more detailed explanation of the exploit.
The Pepaire-Bueno brothers exploited a bug in MEV-boost’s code that allowed them to preview the content of blocks before they were officially delivered to validators, according to the indictment.
The brothers created 16 Ethereum validators and targeted three specific traders who operated MEV bots, the indictment said. They used bait transactions to figure out how those bots traded, lured the bots to one of their validators which was validating a new block and basically tricked these bots into proposing certain transactions. […]
So hardly an attack on any core system of cryptocurrencies.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
I hope at that point we have enough capable alternatives. Like, around the time they add ads is also the time when open-source models and apps have caught up again.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 6 months ago:
It’s a group therapy called !linux@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 6 months ago:
This is pretty impressive and hella creepy!
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!
- Comment on The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train. 6 months ago:
The reason the Jedi use prosthetics to train is because live lightsabers are so good.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
If you’re curious, here are the numbers added up for all instances with +10 users:
blocked
- users: 251442 (~60%)
- active: 24106 (~55%)
federated
- users: 167166 (~40%)
- active: 19558 (~45%)
- Comment on Gluetun: The Little VPN Client That Could 6 months ago:
I’ve been running Gluetun for a few month now, and just the other day discovered that you can use it to seamlessly proxy Twitch streams, so they come from countries that Twitch doesn’t show ads for. Setting it up was ridiculously easy, and now I have neither ads nor endless loading anymore. The whole thing was a really nice surprise!
- Comment on [Question] If I selfhost a privacy frontend on cloud, wouldn't the original service get my server IP and track back to me? 6 months ago:
Yes. It makes it much harder to build a profile about you though, because you’re not logged in and they don’t know if those views come from you or someone else using your server.
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 7 months ago:
I think the ban was a little too harsh, but removing that comment was the right decision.
I see a few false equivalences with your “your highness” comparison:
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“Your highness” is an official title, not a personal designation. Its proper usage depends heavily on the context, e.g. the perceived social rank and status, how well people know each other, if it’s a formal or informal conversation, and so on. Pronouns have none of that, you just use the one people identify as and that’s it.
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It assumes that people just pick whatever term they can come up with to mess with others or to mock them. People who want to be called by a certain pronoun don’t do so lightly, they usually think about it a lot and it’s an important personal decision. They also usually pick one of the common pronouns, so it’s really not hard to just use it.
Making logical comparisons regarding social norms is a very tricky thing in my experience. There are many things going on that we aren’t fully aware of all of the time, and getting it wrong can hurt people badly.
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- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 7 months ago:
Downvote it to oblivion then, but disagreeing or not being interested is no reason to remove a post.
- Comment on Restart Docker Container Without root privileges 7 months ago:
Looks like you can create a simple binary and make it run as root with
setuid. - Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 7 months ago:
It’s planned to be 100% API compatible with Lemmy, so you’d be able to use any Lemmy-UI with it. IDK why LW or any other instance would change their default UI.
A lot of things are not final and may change, but let’s just start with their stated goals, instead of speculating about all the things that could theoretically happen.
- Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 7 months ago:
I don’t think there is anything to be concerned about.
Sublinks will live alongside Lemmy, just like kbin does today. Some Lemmy instances might switch to it under the hood at some point, but as a user you’d probably have a hard time even noticing it, and all the data (such as your community) would still be there unchanged.
- Comment on Looking for a good, cheap backup solution. 7 months ago:
I use Synology C2 backup for my NAS, but they also have very affordable options for PC backups and object storage.
- Comment on Threadverse Working Group is formed 8 months ago:
Theadiverse refers specifically to Fediverse sites that are organized like forums.
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 8 months ago:
I have yet to try it myself, but in principle I think it’s a bit of a solution in search of a problem.
The tech is impressive, but I can’t shake the feeling that they focussed too hard on the wrong things. It’s not as good for VR gaming as other headsets, and imo an AR device needs to be extremely lightweight, so you can wear it comfortably for at least a few hours. That leaves maybe movies I guess, but even for those some cheaper headsets are usually more than good enough.
So what exactly is the selling point for this thing? Who and what is it for?! Seems to me like it’s more of a research device than anything else, to get the ball rolling for more in the future.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
Yes, that’s partly what those schemas are about. You can create different schemas for different kinds of posts and content structures, so something like Lemmy should be possible.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
ELI5:
In the Fediverse your account and identity is linked to a domain (e.g. you are @someone@domain.com), and you can’t move that account somewhere else. You can’t even change the domain of a server, because all the accounts on that server would be known by a different domain and be treated as separate new identifies. In Bluesky your identity is basically a random number, it’s shown in the URL of a profile page for example. You can link that to a domain temporarily and get a nice user handle, but you can always move to another domain later. That means you can migrate between servers and keep all your friends and followers, something that’s currently not possible in the Fediverse.
The thing about schemas is a technical detail, not really any consequences for users. Then there is a different format for user handles, so the Bluesky people don’t like the double @ signs for those.
The last thing is about how you don’t just pick one server/instance in Bluesky, instead you can pick different servers for different things. One server hosts your account, but a few others can fill and sort your news feed, block spam for you or let you search through content. It’s supposed to create an open ecosystem for these services, and allow you to keep your account on a server that offers none of these by itself, e.g. a small home server.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
That’s why we have the freedom to create different distros.
- Comment on LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why? 9 months ago:
LibeY’s “Framework and JS free” approach is an anti-feature as far as I’m concerned. If you really don’t like those for some reason then sure, but I personally prefer getting a nicer UX with a bit of JS.
- Comment on How should I host Handbrake? 9 months ago:
I just finished setting up transcoding for my media library, and I think you’re probably better off using something that’s build for media servers. One really nice feature is adding more processing nodes to make things go faster, like a gaming PC while not playing anything. I don’t think handbrake can do that by itself.
The options I found were Tdarr, FileFlows and Unmanic, but they all use ffmpeg and/or handbrake under the hood, so it kinda comes down to preference. I went with FileFlows because it seemed the most intuitive to me, and it can also process other media like photos, music, audiobooks and ebooks.